I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISONIf you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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